3. A board or bench in an open-air market on which wares are displayed.
Ags. c.1820 J. M. BeattsReminisc. (1882) 10: The fishermen personally exposed their fish for sale to the public in the Fish Market (now Green Market), for the convenience of which traffic boards, or “stocks”, were supplied by the burgh authorities.

‡4. The outer edge of a bed, orig. of a box-or cupboard-bed, the wooden rail at the front over which one climbs into bed, the side of a bed, esp. an enclosed bed, away from the wall (Sc. 1808 Jam.; Sh. 1914 Angus Gl.; Uls. 1931 Northern Whig (16 Dec.) 9; Sh., Kcd., Per., Slg., Bte., Ayr., Dmf. 1971). Obs. in Eng.
Wgt. 1723 Session Bk. Penninghame (1933) I. 511: She came and lay in the bed side betwixt him and the stock.Sc. 1776 Lord Ingram in ChildBallads No. 66 C. xxviii.: He turned his face unto the stock, And sound he fell asleep.Dmf. 1808 R. CromekRemains 278: Lie at the bed stock an' ye'll be as lean as me.Sc. 1831 WilsonNoctes Amb. (1855) III. 300: It's a shame to see her sleepin at the stock — the wife should aye lie neist the wa'Cld. 1856 Specification (per wm.Sc.1): The kitchen beds to be all fitted up with wooden haffets, lintels and stocks at least ten inches broad.Kcb. 1896 CrockettGrey Man xlvii.: Betwixt barn-door and bed-stock.Ayr. 1912 G. CunninghamVerse 65: My brithers, wha lay atween me and the stock.Uls. 1953 Traynor: They at the wall will get the gold ball, They at the middle will get the gold fiddle. They at the stock will get the gold rock.

5. A saddle-tree, the wooden foundation of a saddle on which the leather is sewn.
Sc. 1714 Atholl MSS.: A Hunting Stock . . . Two little Hunting Stocks.Sc. 1733 RamsayT.-T. Misc. (1876) I. 175: The pannel of an auld led-saddle, And Rob my eem hecht me a stock.

6. The part of a plough to which the share was attached in the old wooden plough, the Sheth. Used with a double entendre in the first quot.
Sc. 18th c. Merry Muses (1911) 79: The plough she took a stane, jo, Which gart the fire flee frae the stock.Abd. 1923 Banffshire Jnl. (29 May) 3: On an old plough being dismantled, withdrawing the “stock” or “sheath” taxed all our resources.

7. The body or fixed part of a slide-rule.
Sc. 1776 Weaver's Index 98: Set the divisor on the slide to 1 on the stock, and opposite to the dividend on the slide will be found the quotient of answer on the stock.

8. The socket of a drone in a set of bagpipes to which the bag is tied.
Sc. 1901 W. L. MansonHighl. Bagpipe 71: The bag is formed of sheepskin, in which are securely fastened five pieces of turned wood called stocks.wm.Sc. 1906 H. FoulisVital Spark xiv.: There's nothing will put a pipe bag in trum but some treacle poured in by the stock.Sc. 1966 F. CollinsonTrad. Music Scot. 169: The small-pipes, both Lowland and Highland, are alike in other respects, and all have drones in one stock.

9. In flax-dressing: the mallet or beater used in skutching; the block of wood into which the teeth of the ripple are inserted.
Ags. 1794 J. RogerAgric. Ags. 11–12: The practice of skutching flax with the stock and hand, is now almost totally extinguished.Rxb. 1805 A. ScottPoems 22: Ye didna ken but syle o' kipple Or stock to some auld wife's lint-ripple Might be your fate.

11. The hard stalk or stem of a plant, esp. a cabbage or other of the brassica family. See Castock; the whole plant (Sc. 1881 A. Mackie Scotticisms 50; Cai. 1904 E.D.D.; Sh. 1971). Freq. in references to these as a means of divination at Halloween or Hogmanay (see Burns Halloween Notes).
Sc. 1732 Six Saints (Fleming 1901) II. 33: They cut four stocks of kail to save their lives.Abd. 1735 J. ArbuthnotBch. Farmers 15: After the Brier-Blade falls, the Corn makes no Progress, till the Stock be form'd.Ayr. 1785 BurnsHalloween ii.: To burn their nits, an' pou their stocks, An' haud their Halloween.Fif. 1832 Fife Herald (23 Aug.): [Prize] for the best Four Stocks of Green Coss Lettuce.Sc. 1887 Jam.: The stocks pulled by persons holding Halloween were whole plants. The head or top of the plant, i.e. the edible portion, is also called a stock. “Bring in a guid kale-stock and a weel-filled cabbage stock for the broth the day.”

12. The yellow globe-flower. Trollius europaeus.
Bwk. 1842 Proc. Bwk. Nat. Club (1849) 15: The Berwickshire name for this plant, viz. Stocks, should justify its propriety, the flower being an admirable miniature of a “closed cabbage-stock”.

†14. (1) In assessment for teinds, that proportion of the crop or other produce left over after the amount apportioned to teinds had been withdrawn in kind or its monetary equivalent.
Sc. 1705 W. ForbesChurch-Lands 360: The Possessor may safely Teind his own Corn, and carry away the Stock, leaving the separate Teind upon the Ground.Sc. 1838 W. BellDict. Law Scot. 979: The yearly duty payable by the heritor to the titular or beneficiary should be one-fifth of that whole annual valuation of the rent of stock and tithe together.Sc. 1928 A. BirnieHist. of Teinds 43: The rent was usually calculated at a third of the stock plus the teind; in this instance [of 100 bolls produce] 30 bolls plus 10 bolls.

(2) A number of sheaves of grain selected as an average specimen for assessing the value of the crop.
Mry. 1813 W. LeslieAgric. Mry. 180: He begins by throwing down 20 sheaves which are called the “stock”, he then turns up three sheaves which he considers, choosing that one of them which he accounts of the same bulk, or most nearly equal in value, to the 20 of the stock.

15. In dim. form stockie: a piece of cheese or fish between two slices of bread, a cheese or fish sandwich (Fif. 1808 Jam.). Obs.

16. Transf. of persons: (1) “one whose joints are stiffened by age or disease” (Sc. 1808 Jam., an auld stock); an old gnarled wizened creature.
Ork. 1968 M. A. ScottIsland Saga 156: She was stolen, and in her place was a “stock”.

(2) a thick-set well-built person, prob. a specif. use of (3) rather than a direct development of 1.
Bnff. 1866 GregorD. Bnff. 183: He's a brow stock o' cheel.

II. v. 1. intr. Of the body or limbs: to become stiff and unwieldy, to cramp with cold, etc.
Sc. 1808 Jam.: We say that one stocks, or that the limbs stock, from cold or want of exercise.Ags. 1856 W. GrantFew Poet. Pieces 27: Until their stiff and stockit shanks Wi' tire are cheepin'.Gsw. 1868 J. YoungPoems 28: For him, I'm sure, my shanks micht stock.Slk. 1874 Border Treasury (12 Sept.) 88: It [horse] was “stocked”, that is, swollen in the legs.Uls. 1953 Traynor: Of milch cows: they'll be stocked if they don't get out of the byre sometimes.

3. To fund or invest (money), also with out; to accumulate or lay past money. Hence stockit siller, money laid past (Bnff. 1866 Gregor D. Bnff. 183).
Sc. 1710 MorisonDecisions 16187: Watson bequeathed the sum of 5,400 marks Scots to be stocked in a responsible debtor's hand.Sc. 1794 Cases Ct. Session (Bell) 76: The price is to be stocked out for the benefit of the incumbent.

4. Ppl.adj. stocked in phr. stocked multure, a charge paid to a landowner by a tenant who had his corn ground by a mill outside the estate. See Dry, I. 20. and Multure.
Bwk. 1758 Session Papers, Lumsdaine v. Fiar (5 Jan.) 7: They were often in use to pay a dry or stocked Multure when they ground their Corns at any other Mill.

5. Of plants: to send up shoots, to sprout, tiller (n.Sc. 1971); of a cabbage: to form a head (Ags. 1971). Obs. in Eng. Hence stocking, the tillering of grain crops in spring (Sc. 1869 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. II. 726).
Abd. 1735 J. ArbuthnotBch. Farmers 18: Until the Brier begin to recover after Stocking.Per. 1799 J. RobertsonAgric. Per. 164: Land in good order ought to be sown thin, because the grain will stock.Sc. 1825 Jam.: Grass is said to stock when it forms such a stool as to fill the ground and to cover the blank spaces.Abd. 1948 : The corn breart fine but fanever it startit tae stock, it took the crine.